Teenager Dubs Wood shone with bat and ball and Joe Oates hit an unbeaten half-century as Basingstoke & North Hants cruised to a five-wicket win over Southern Premier Division 1 rivals Ventnor at May’s Bounty.
Wood took 4-30 and later hit 49 as Basingstoke chased down 185 to win with time to spare.
His four wickets included Ventnor top run scorers Martin Blackman (60) and Ross Whyte (37), the islanders losing their last six wickets for 36 runs, having been 149-4.
It was Blackman’s sixth half-century of what is proving a remarkable season at the crease during which he’s totted up 573 league runs alone. Ventnor had just lost three wickets for eight runs when he walked down the Bounty pavilion steps, but he calmed things down and with Hugh Calloway and later Whyte restored some pride to the total.
But no one could keep Dubs Wood out of the game, the bespectacled 17-years of son of lead cricket coach Julian Wood making a patient 49 before Oates (51 not out) and Brad Neal (30 not out) came together to steer Basingstoke side to victory.
Wood took 4-30 and later hit 49 as Basingstoke chased down 185 to win with time to spare.
His four wickets included Ventnor top run scorers Martin Blackman (60) and Ross Whyte (37), the islanders losing their last six wickets for 36 runs, having been 149-4.
It was Blackman’s sixth half-century of what is proving a remarkable season at the crease during which he’s totted up 573 league runs alone. Ventnor had just lost three wickets for eight runs when he walked down the Bounty pavilion steps, but he calmed things down and with Hugh Calloway and later Whyte restored some pride to the total.
But no one could keep Dubs Wood out of the game, the bespectacled 17-years of son of lead cricket coach Julian Wood making a patient 49 before Oates (51 not out) and Brad Neal (30 not out) came together to steer Basingstoke side to victory.